Taraji P. Henson Blacked Out During Her Striptease in ‘Fight Night’ Hostage Episode: ‘I Mentally Removed Myself from the Room’

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Don’t ask Taraji P. Henson about her character’s striptease scene in the nail-biting hostage episode of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. She probably wouldn’t remember much because she blacked out during filming.

“It was difficult to dance like this in front of all my peers. But that’s when you just have to black out, and that’s what I did,” the star jokes Entertainment weekly. “I mentally removed myself from the room.”

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Still, the episode – in which her character was forced to do the striptease in front of her fellow hostages at gunpoint – was a blast to film, even if at times it felt like it was never ending. “I just remember saying, ‘We’re never going home,’” Henson recalls with a laugh. “Because there were so many moving pieces, but it was fun. The night was exciting. Lots of exercise, lots of running, lots of action. It helps if you have a nice cast. It was a lively cast.”